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Wasn’t expecting this…

Just spent 10 days at this site covering two weekends. Arrived on the Friday and all well and good. At 5.45am on the 1st Saturday morning we were woken by car engines, voices and laughter. This went on for around 30 mins or so before falling silent again. Later on that day two pick up type vehicles pulled up and occupants got out all dressed in hunting attire. They proceeded to take 2 deer out of one the vehicles and laid them on the floor of the carpark for everyone to see. One of them then proceeded to cut the head from one of the animals, again right in front of anyone who was about. We couldn’t watch and turned away. Now this is not an adults only site and we could quite easily of had our grandchildren with us who would have been absolutely horrified to have seen such an event. The following weekend got even worse. This time we were woken at 5.15am again with engines running, loud voices and laughter, with even a couple of toots on the car horn. No consideration for anyone staying or living on site..very selfish people. They brought 5 deer back from their trip out and laid them out 20m or so from our windscreen. They were all congratulating and hugging each other on their days work. More heads were cut off from the animals and they even skinned one of the unfortunate victims on site too. Disgusting and barbaric to have to witness this..there were others staying on site in holiday lets, but not sure if anyone else were as unfortunate us to have witnessed it like we did. There was another motorhome staying for the second weekend, but luckily for them they went out for day and missed those horrible practices, but were disturbed by their morning antics which they wasn’t very happy about at all. I did let the farmer/owner know what we had seen but, it didn’t seem like an urgency to him to do anything about it? Hasten to add, we will never return to this site ever. I have had to write this review just to warn other, unsuspecting people thinking of staying here during the hunting season, you may want to think again.
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Suffolk Born replied on 15/06/2024 18:00

Posted on 15/06/2024 18:00

We're naturally mortified that you experienced this and, whilst the harm has already been done, can only apologise.

We did indeed have weekend guests staying in our self-catering accommodation that turned out to be engaged in local deer control. What they subsequently got up to in our car park in the early hours was sadly without our knowledge or consent and - whilst an inevitable part of handling game carcasses - was completely inconsiderate in their choice of location and timing.

We're grateful for you bringing this to our attention, but can often only be reactive to events such as this. We'll keep a good look-out for future guests that may be staying here for similar reasons and pre-emptively discuss with them how they can minimise potential disturbance and carry out what they need to do in a more sensitive way. Sadly, that's about as far as our control over other guests' behaviour can reasonably go.

Sasha & Richard